CHAPTER VI 



Lake of Bays — Fairy Lake — A honeymoon island— A 

 smothered waterway — Mary Lake — The searchlight — Wawa 

 Hotel— The " Joe " pleasure tug — Memories of Bigwin — A triplet 

 of graces — Savage Den and its " chief " — Auld lang syne — 

 Hollow Lake — Trout-fishing on Raven Lake — North Bay and 

 Temagami ; Facilities for colonization, The Forest Reserve, 

 Anghng rivers and lakes, The Land of Hiawatha. 



RETURNING from Pickerel and French River, 

 the Lake of Bays is reached by Parry Sound. 

 At Huntsville there is a small steamer that plies on 

 the lake. It is a favourite summer resort, and the 

 Grand Trunk Railway supplies a good service from 

 Toronto and intervening towns. 



The " Lake of Bays " might with equal propriety 

 be called the " Lake of Lakes," for it is in reality a 

 series, one leading to the other with the exception 

 of a narrow neck of land on which there is a railway 

 portage. The convolutions of these lakes produce 

 an effect most picturesque and romantic. The 

 steamer, passing under a drawbridge, enters Fairy 

 Lake, which by no means belies its title. It, like 

 most of its fellows, is a mirror framed in an unbroken 

 margin of woodland. An island called the Scotch- 

 man's Bonnet is a favourite honeymoon resort. There 



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